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Academy Award Winner, Walter Mirisch: UW-Madison Class of 1942

Class of 1942 UW-Madison graduate, Walter Mirisch, is the producer, in whole or in part, of more than one hundred films. Among the Mirisch Company's honors are three Oscars for best picture —The Apartment (1960), West Side Story (1961), and In the Heat of the Night (1967). Mirisch has also received two honorary Academy Awards, the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (1977) and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (1983); he has been honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award (1977) presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the David O. Selznick Lifetime Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures (1995) presented by the Producers Guild of America. He has been decorated by the Republic of France with its Order of Arts and Letters, has received an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from the University of Wisconsin--Madison, and is a recipient of the UCLA Medal, that university's highest award. Mirisch served three terms as president of the Producers Guild of America and four terms as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. His work has led to eighty-seven Academy Award nominations and twenty-eight Oscars. Hear Mr. Mirisch describe his career as one of the most celebrated producers in movie history, and how his time as a student at UW-Madison helped shape his career. Video Producer, Cinematographer, Editor: Justin Bomberg "Badgerwood" Concept: Justin Bomberg